Conor Berry: Quit or Fired?

Best of Luck Connor Berry wrote:

..... but I simply figured there is a certain journalistic law that the Berkshire Eagle is abiding by and in all fairness they could be working with the Federal Government and abiding by their requests right now until they can gather all their facts.

HellerCarbonCapNTradeLLC wrote:

(Continued from above)
So thanks, but better that the lone newspaper in town should have a strong -- even tense -- adversarial relationship with anyone, anywhere in government.
Food for thought: Would Pittsfield now be a toxic waste dump if The Berkshire Eagle had a strong adversarial relationship with General Electric, say, starting in the 1940's or 1950's?

HellerCarbonCapNTradeLLC wrote:

FLASH!
In RE: Conor Berry
Conor Berry is now employed by The Springfield Republican!
Mr. Berry reported for his first day of work yesterday, Monday April 4, at 3PM.
He is NOT working at MassLive, which though affiliated with The Republican and though carrying the bulk of The Republican’s news feed, is located in a separate building.
Mr. Berry has not yet been assigned a telephone extension at The Republican, but can be reached at, of course, the news desk.
The Republican does cover some aspects of news relevant to Berkshire County so one big question is whether Conor Berry will be allowed to continue delving into the federal steroids probe?

HellerCarbonCapNTradeLLC wrote:

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Trouble with that business of The Berkshire Eagle working with the Federales, is it really in the public interest for the public's lone monopoly daily newspaper to be so cozy with government?
Isn't that exactly the reason why nothing ever changes in Pittsfield city government?
The Eagle for decades has worked hand-in-glove with the city government, so much so that outright fraud (water department) and now even widespread steroids usage (PPD & BCHC) gets unreported, though all these things have plainly been going on, for all practical purposes out in the open, for years, and in the case of some things, even for decades.
For example, does anyone seriously doubt the veracity of Kris Knutson's revelations about sleazy goings-on at BCHC?
And does anyone think that stuff only began the day Knutson first reported for work?
And in another example, before it was brought to the attention of the State Inspector General, it was indded common practice for the head of Pittsfield's public works department to ignore wholesale the state's public bidding statutes applicable to the award of valuable city public works contracts.
The then Commissioner of Public Works would essentially just call up a well-known local contractor and say "Hey, we got a sewer reconstruction job for you on North Street; when can you get over here to do it?"
So-called 'sweetheart' contracts like these have been illegal anywhere in the state for probably 75 years -- but not in Berkshire County!
And it was not as if The Berkshire Eagle, even under The Miller Family's ownership, did not know this chicanery was going on week in and week out with the bulk of all public works projects in each of Berkshire County's 33 cities and towns.
So this idea that the monopoly newspaper should somehow work closely with government is not such a good idea especially because the relationship is so quickly and easily abused.